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Resource Documents: Europe (37 items)
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Bisphenol A Pollution from Wind Turbines
Author: Smith, Tim
What is Bisphenol A? Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical produced in large quantities for use primarily in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. “Bisphenol A is the most toxic substance we know’ —Swedish Environmental Protection Agency New EU Hazard Classes 2023 • Endocrine disruption for human health • Very persistent, very bioaccumulative • Endocrine disruption for the environment • Very persistent, very mobile Avoid release to the environment! A different process takes place on the trailing edge . . .
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“We have been invaded”: Wind energy sacrifice zones in Åfjord Municipality and their implications for Norway
Author: Karam, Anne; and Shokrgozar, Shayan
ABSTRACT. Following the “green” growth tradition, the construction of lower carbon energy (renewable energy) infrastructures, such as wind power, has gained prominence in Norway. This has led to indigenous Saami herders confronting pastureland dispossession, some citizens fearing the industrialization of nature, and municipal councils losing formal governance power in favor of national agencies and private-sector project developers—justified by the urgency of the climate crisis. The purpose of the paper is to explore how energy infrastructures aimed at decarbonization have led . . .
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Peasant Studies
Articles from The Journal of Peasant Studies Book review: Power struggles: dignity, value, and the renewable energy frontier in Spain Gavin Smith May 4, 2020 doi:10.1080/03066150.2020.1745391 [download pdf] After years in which nobody showed any interest, at last now as we enter the second decade of an apocalyptic century, the world’s fifth largest oil company is to address the energy transition. And they are going to do it by casting off the past and creating a new future with the . . .
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Comment lutter contre un projet éolien [How to fight against a wind project]
Author: Fédération Environnement Durable
Nous assistons depuis plusieurs années à un déferlement de projets éoliens dans nos régions avec des machines de plus en plus nombreuses, de plus en plus grandes et de plus en plus puissantes. Leurs nuisances sont aujourd’hui avérées et reconnues. Cette invasion qui menace l’intégrité du sol français va être renforcée par la récente loi d’accélération des Energies Renouvelables qui vient d’être votée. Des éoliennes risquent d’être installées près de chez vous ? Des moyens existent pour contrecarrer ce type de . . .
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